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Science is part of the Darwinian struggle for life. It helps us to organize our experience. It leads us to economy of thought. Mathematical laws are nothing more than conventions useful for summarizing the results of possible experiments.
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Curiously, the unexpected complexity that has been discovered in nature has not led to a slowdown in the progress of science, but on the contrary to the emergence of new conceptual structures that now appear as essential to our understanding of the physical world - the world that includes us.
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Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
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Isabelle Stengers
Born:
1949
(age 76)
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Isabelle Stengers is a Belgian philosopher, noted for her work in the philosophy of science.
Known for:
Cosmopolitics II (2011)
The invention of modern science (2000)
Power and invention (1997)
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